Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer Joint News Conference

2019-05-22T13:11:06-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/975/20190522122543010_hd.jpgHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a press conference ifollowing a meeting at the White House with President Trump on infrastructure that abruptly ended over the president’s objections to congressional investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Democratic leaders expressed their disappointment in the meeting’s outcome and lamented the stalled progress on an infrastructure package. “It’s clear this was not a spontaneous move on the president’s part. It was planned,” said Senator Schumer. “He just took a pass and it just makes me wonder why he did that,” said Speaker Pelosi.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a press conference ifollowing a meeting at the White House with President Trump on infrastructure that abruptly ended over the president’s objections to congressional investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Democratic leaders expressed their disappointment in the meeting’s outcome and lamented the stalled progress on an infrastructure package. “It’s clear this was not a spontaneous move on the president’s part. It was planned,” said Senator Schumer. “He just took a pass and it just makes me wonder why he did that,” said Speaker Pelosi. close